Frank Albert JOLLY

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JOLLY, Frank Albert

Service Number:	370
Enlisted:	17 April 1916, Port Pirie, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Gladstone, South Australia, 5 September 1890
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer/Prison Warder
Died:	Injuries sustained, Adelaide, South Australia, 3 October 1926, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	West Terrace Cemetery (General)
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Gladstone Public School WW1 Roll of Honor, Gladstone Town and District WW1 Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

17 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Port Pirie, South Australia
19 Sep 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 370, 8th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
19 Sep 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 370, 8th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 370
Date unknown:	Wounded 370, 8th Machine Gun Company

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Biography

Prisoner of War - Interned Limburg. Captured 21-4-1917. Returned to Adelaide 9-5-1919.

Worked as a Prison Guard at Yatla Labour Prison and was killed by an inmate at Adelaide oval during a football match.

"DEATH OF GUARD JOLLY. CORONER'S INQUEST CONCLUDED. A VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Adelaide, Friday, Assistant Coroner Matthews' today returned a finding of manslaughter against a certain person unknown, at the conclusion of the enquiry into the death of Frank Albert Jolly, aged 35, a Yatala Labor Prison Guard. Jolly died on Sunday, October 3rd, at the Adelaide Hospital, following injuries received while watching a football match at the Adelaide oval the previous day." - from the Kadina and Wallaroo Times 23 Oct 1926 (nla.gov.au)

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